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Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Cutlure

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“With an unabashed fan’s passion and a novelist’s descriptive flair, [Charyn] takes on the chronicle of the movies, reliving treasured scenes and evoking screen idols in a triumph of personalized history.” Digby Diehl, Playboy [From the back cover.]

Author(s): Charyn, Jerome
Publisher: New York University Press
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 304
City: New York
Tags: Hollywood

PRELUDE: THE LOEW’S PARADISE 7
1. FACES ON THE WALL 13
2. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS BUFFALO BILL 26
3. GILDA’S GLOVE 44
4. ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER 57
5. MOGUL 73
6. "YOUNG FELLAH” 93
7. COWARDLY LIONS AND FORGOTTEN MEN 108
8. DANCING IN THE DARK (WITH DiCK POWELL) 126
9. CHILDREN OF PARADISE 141
10. TWO-HEADED MAN 161
11. WILDIES 181
12. THE HOUSE ON NINETY-FIFTH STREET 208
13. MR. FEATHERS 221
14. POISONVILLE 232
15. PILGRIM’S PROGRESS 247
16. THE FIRST EMPEROR 259
NOTES 273
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 290
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 295
INDEX 297